User blog comment:Llamao/A Disappearing Act/@comment-3474228-20120115043933/@comment-3474228-20120115235225

Nova nods. "Good enough. We must work quickly." All of the slaves who were just bound by rope are freed, but a few of the bigger otters and one badger are all shackled in irons. Nova carelessly slaps wet mud from the slave pens onto the creatures' legs, bidding Shadowbane and Lijel to do likewise.

Sahaz sweeps his cape around him as a blast of cold wind greets him from the grounds. He steps out, and the first thing his keen eyes spot are Shadowbane, Nova, and Lijel along with the slaves. As he yells out, the badger slips out of his manacles and charges the Marlfox, who holds his battleaxe forwards at the oncoming bare-handed badger.

Nova notches an arrow to his bow and shoots it off at Shadowbane, but it pings off the axe, and with a flick of his wrist, Sahaz beheads the bloodwrath-filled badger. He then retreats back into the castle. Vermin begin popping up from the slave pens, wielding weapons and snarling. Nova runs to the small gate the party had entered from. "Run, everybeast!"